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...political institutions, but also of sociological, anthropological, and psychological sides of Russian life. The findings of the Center will be valuable because they will form, in Kluckhohn's words, an "attempt to consider the workings of current Russian institutions as a system." They will be uniquely valuable, because this scope is unprecedented...
Shakespeare's "Henry IV" is a unique work of art--a play never approached in the scope of its form or the range of its emotional appeal. Containing within its tremendous outlines some of the finest comedy in the English language, intensely dramatic historical tragedy, and the height of color and pageantry in words and ideas, the play presents to any group attempting it a rich and complex opportunity...
...member of the World Court (1921-28); after long illness; in Manhattan. Moore, whose eight-volume Digest of International Law is the bible of the field, was no One-Wonder, argued back in 1933 that the "new" internationalism's efforts to guarantee peace merely assured the worldwide scope of future wars...
...second course of Mr. Coward's current offering brings to light a program more varied in scope than the first, and presents an excellent opportunity for the author-director to display not only variations in his writing but still in handling on the stage his intricate and often most delicately balanced dialogue and situation...
...Haven's tug Transfer 21 set out from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn for Greenville on the Jersey shore. Her pilothouse windows were hung with heavy grey curtains, more opaque than any fog. This low visibility did not bother the captain. By glancing at the radar's 12-in. "scope," he could follow all harbor doings for a mile around. A squarish blob meant a ferryboat; a small oval, a tug. Moored ships showed their anchor chains. Snaking her heavy barges through all these obstacles, the Transfer 21 made Jersey without trouble, though only the radar's electronic...